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Update: Retailer List Expands in 9-Million-Pound Beef Recall

(Feb. 15 update: The retailer list has been updated to include retailers in Alabama and Mississippi, with additional locations in Florida.)

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is piecing together a list of retailers to which 8.7 million pounds of recalled meat had been sent over the course of 2013.

While, up until Wednesday, the recall list has consisted of neighborhood markets, one national retailer has been added: Pastoral Plate, a meat retailer whose San Francisco Bay pick-up locations received some of the recalled product.

The first update of Friday evening added a number of California locations and one in Washington. A second update the same evening correctly identified Washington and Oregon retailers that had been mistakenly listed under California.

Saturday’s update expanded the list of Florida retailers and added Alabama and Mississippi locations. There is still no indication of where the product was sold in Illinois and Texas, as indicated in the initial recall notice.

Rancho Feeding Corp., the beef processor behind the recall, has halted production at their facilities while USDA officials begin an investigation into the production of the recalled products. For more information about the recall, see here.

Good grief! How many animals died for nothing? How can this possibly be more profitable than simply following regulations? Why is this place not closed down as a menace to the public?

Kronae

These animals did not die for nothing. Most of them were already dead from diseae or dieing from their disease.
Try to read the whole subject. Most of these were very disease animals that were already dead and should have been destroyed and not let out to markets.

Oginikwe

Not all of them were diseased and/or dying. English your second language?

now&then

Question, how is the meat disposed of and where? Does it get sent to a pet food manufacturer for processing as has been done before with unfit for human consumption products?

Regretfully this list misinforms the actual locations where this beef was sold. Example: Butcher Boys is correctly identified with the correct street address and City of Vancouver. However, this retailer is located in Washington State. There is another error as Long Meats is in Eugene, Oregon.
Both Washington and Oregon should be identified as states included in this important recall. Makes us wonder if this is intentional. Hummm?

Dave Louthan

I warned the world in 2004 that diseased animals were being fed to you but few listened.

Kathryn Dubovsky

If you do your research, the way animals that are kept in dire conditions that are going to be slaughtered, very many of them are diseased and/or dying. Besides this, because of the disease, meat going to supermarkets are washed in a substance equivalent to ammonia to kill the disease and bacteria, urine and feces that still might be remaining on the meat. WARNING: Do not eat the terrible meat in supermarkets, unless you want to be ill or die yourself.